Eka Sagar Kinaree (A Seaside Story)

MARATHI-ENGLISH/VIDEO/45 MIN/COL/FICTION/2004

Citation of Jury 2004 National Award
“This short fiction handles the simple and delicate relationship between ordinary human beings in very profound, evocative and enterprising manner, within a commercialized compulsive atmosphere”

Synopsis

The film is about a school teacher shabu, who silently grim about the transformation of his village into market place and is unable to do anything about the “ fast money making”  mentality, growing amongst  his fellow villagers. One fine day, he bumps into foreign tourist, nancy and while confronting her he realizes his own weakness ad strengths  and change himself to such an extent that he fights his battle  against commercialization on personal level.

Producer: Gomantak Marathi Acadamy
Writer/Director: Laxmikant shetgaonkar
Camera: Sachin Krishanan
Editing: Hemantee Sarkar
Music: Dhwani
Cast: Claire price, Dhanu Dicholkar, Gopikant Shirodkar, Ramakant Anvekar, Bala Poke.

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Making of the film

After returning to my native state, it took almost a year to get 1.7 lakh for the production of the film. Just the time when we found the producer, London based actor Claire Price (UK) had come to Mumbai to conduct an acting workshop. We managed to get her appointment and after reading the initial script she confirmed to act in our short fiction without expecting any remuneration. Goan stage actor Dhanu Dicholkar was cast opposite her and it was in a real sense collaboration of two artists belonging to varied cultures. The film was shot on the costal belt of Goa.